Adelbert
Adelbert is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 320th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191886 births
- Best rank
- #320in 1880
- Since 1880
- 2,373people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,373 boys have been named Adelbert in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 86 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 86 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1926, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 46 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Adelbert | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 140 | |
| 1890s | 106 | |
| 1900s | 99 | |
| 1910s | 501 | |
| 1920s | 522 | |
| 1930s | 357 | |
| 1940s | 212 | |
| 1950s | 140 | |
| 1960s | 97 | |
| 1970s | 112 | |
| 1980s | 50 | |
| 1990s | 37 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Adelbert was the 667th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Adelbert
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Irapeak 1947
- Newtonpeak 1919
- Columbuspeak 1922
- Emilpeak 1917
- Ferdinandpeak 1918
- Adolphpeak 1917
- Alvapeak 1917
- Granvillepeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.